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My favorite Holiday Pandora Stations

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Tis the season to put on a little music and start wrapping those gifts, baking those cookies or just sit by the fire and read a great book! I love to listen to some christmas music while I’m working ( especially when I am designing holiday items in the middle of July!) So here are a few of my favorite pandora stations to get you in the Holiday Spirit!

Rockin’ Holidays Radio – A classic station with a mix of new and old rockin’ Holiday Songs

Indie Holidays – Dashboard. Belle & Sebastian, She and Him ( holiday music for the hipster soul)

The Waitresses – My all time favorite Christmas song!

Rockin Around The Christmas Tree – Classic up beat classics like the Beach Boys & Dean Martin

What Christmas Means to Me – A little Motown Christmas with the Jackson 5 & Stevie Wonder

Holly Jolly Christmas – A little Bing Crosby anyone?

 

Etsy Goes Public! And I was there!

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I was so honored that Etsy invited me to help celebrate the launch of their IPO (initial public offering) when they started trading last week on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Honored, isn’t even the right word. more like shocked! I have been a seller on etsy since 2008 with my shop Peppersprouts, and I opened the chattypress on etsy 3 years later in 2011, but i never thought they would invite me to be part of something so big!

I drove down from Massachusetts on Wednesday evening, had dinner at etsy headquarters in Brooklyn ( and waved to my old apartment fro the BQE) and then spent the night in Times Square, which is really weird if you have ever lived in New York before.

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In the morning I took part in the bell ringing ceremony at the NASDAQ in Times Square, and got to meet so many amazing sellers, and members of the etsy team! It was a little surreal and so much fun. There was also a market set up in belly of times square, where many of my fellow sellers were able to sell their handmade and vintage goods! It was just incredible.

I truly am thankful and honored to be a part of this occasion, and once in a lifetime moment. I hope this new chapter of etsy makes the best kind of history.